Cognitive Biases in Social Perception Quiz

Explore cognitive biases in social judgment. Identify and understand common biases in this cognitive psychology quiz.

#1

Which cognitive bias involves making judgments about a person based on superficial characteristics?

Confirmation bias
Halo effect
Availability heuristic
Anchoring bias
#2

Which cognitive bias involves attributing success to internal factors and attributing failure to external factors?

Self-serving bias
Fundamental attribution error
Hindsight bias
Anchoring bias
#3

Which cognitive bias involves overestimating the likelihood of events that are easily recalled from memory?

Confirmation bias
Availability heuristic
Halo effect
Anchoring bias
#4

Which cognitive bias involves the tendency to seek out or interpret information in a way that supports one's existing beliefs or hypotheses?

Halo effect
Confirmation bias
Self-serving bias
Fundamental attribution error
#5

Which cognitive bias involves the tendency to overestimate one's ability to predict future events?

Overconfidence bias
Anchoring bias
Availability heuristic
Confirmation bias
#6

What is the term for the tendency to overestimate the influence of internal factors and underestimate the influence of external factors when evaluating the behavior of others?

Fundamental attribution error
Hindsight bias
False consensus effect
Self-serving bias
#7

Which cognitive bias involves relying on the first piece of information encountered when making decisions?

Confirmation bias
Availability heuristic
Anchoring bias
Sunk cost fallacy
#8

What is the term for the tendency to believe that others think and act the same way we do?

False consensus effect
Halo effect
Availability heuristic
Confirmation bias
#9

Which cognitive bias involves the tendency to rely too heavily on the first piece of information encountered when making decisions?

Framing effect
Anchoring bias
Hindsight bias
Overconfidence bias
#10

What is the term for the tendency to attribute one's successes to internal factors and failures to external factors?

Hindsight bias
Self-serving bias
Fundamental attribution error
False consensus effect
#11

Which cognitive bias involves the tendency to believe that one's abilities, traits, or characteristics are superior to others?

Overconfidence bias
Framing effect
Anchoring bias
Confirmation bias
#12

Which cognitive bias occurs when individuals see their actions as less risky after an event has occurred than they did before the event?

Hindsight bias
Framing effect
Overconfidence bias
Outcome bias
#13

What is the term for the tendency to favor information that confirms preexisting beliefs or hypotheses?

Halo effect
Confirmation bias
False consensus effect
Availability heuristic
#14

What is the term for the tendency to judge a decision based on its outcome rather than how exactly the decision was made in the moment?

Outcome bias
Confirmation bias
Availability heuristic
False consensus effect
#15

Which cognitive bias involves the tendency to seek out or interpret information in a way that confirms one's preexisting beliefs or hypotheses?

Halo effect
Confirmation bias
Self-serving bias
Fundamental attribution error
#16

What is the term for the tendency to make decisions based on how an issue is framed rather than on the merits of the issue itself?

Outcome bias
Availability heuristic
Framing effect
False consensus effect
#17

Which cognitive bias involves the tendency to attribute one's own negative behaviors to external factors while attributing others' negative behaviors to internal factors?

Halo effect
Self-serving bias
Fundamental attribution error
Confirmation bias

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